Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
4 September 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities and Adaptive Metrics Lab survey has 2,830 managers across 46 workplaces independently rescore the same self-assessment entry, finds the assigned score barely depends on rater tenure, and the resulting SCORE credential becomes a promotion-panel eligibility requirement at four workplaces.
A new research-showcase brochure revisits the University's self-checkout override finding on a franchise's cover-request app, where a worker's own confidence turns out to predict something after all.
A School of Continuous Improvement interview study matches 46 shift and store managers' accounts of a franchise's ninety-day probation override against the confirmation platform's own logs for 214 hires, finds the override almost never used even where a manager describes a clear reservation, and the franchise adopts the resulting confirmation rate as a recruitment-budget rule.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster reports a season-long deployment of a live handicap-recalculation engine at a suburban pub darts league, and finds committee overrides rare but legs increasingly conceded late to protect a favourable band.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Trajectory Analytics Group's Anticipatory Trade Readiness Model features the five-level foresight score that now decides which strip-mall traders keep their pitch on the campus market's precinct map.
3 September 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities paper fields a five-level maturity model for the household entryway across 253 homes, and finds an independent audit's tier estimate collapses precisely at the self-declared top tier that qualifies a household for a Demo Quarter walkthrough.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper fields a five-level maturity rubric for the till float across 54 independent retail sites, finds self-attested scores fall on an unannounced revisit, and the School of Continuous Improvement's Capability Sprints programme adopts the rubric as an admission and progression condition.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster surveys self-reported selling minutes across 48 club raffle panels and finds effort concentrated among a minority of volunteers, prompting a new minimum-quota roster rule.
A new Slop University advertising campaign features Living Dashboard convenor Dr Marit Osayande mounting her meeting-room neglect protocol on a bedroom-door star chart at home, where the board stays under near-constant review instead of drifting into the unread neglect its office counterpart reliably shows.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper reports a cluster-randomised trial across 55 retail-chain sites testing whether a visible running tally changes what staff submit to a staff town hall's Q&A queue, and finds no measurable difference under any condition tested.
A new Slop University brochure, Welcome, Not Open, introduces the Standing Invitation Matrix, which classifies a household by whether its welcome mat still matches its actual openness to callers, and previews a published register recommended for households that fall out of step.
A new Slop University advertising campaign features Postdoctoral Fellow Joost Nwosu and the irrigation system he built, which moves a fixed share of water each week from whichever raised garden bed is growing slowest to whichever is growing fastest.
